When three months have passed from last earthquake in Haiti, the image there is of desolation: the country is as if everything had come to a standstill that same day and more than 650,000 people need urgent help.
Raphael Thierry is a missionary and has been working there for many years. “Every day is worse,” he says, explaining that there is no electricity and hardly any water. “We are like a country at war“, resume.
For Thierry, the problem in Haiti is that there is everything: extreme poverty, lack of basic services and also violence and organized crime. And the fact is that the gangs control the country in the face of government corruption, including the supply of gasoline, which they distribute in a trickle.
“Almost everyone is afraid,” says Thierry, who recounts: “One goes out on the street and when one returns, it is to say ‘thank God I come back alive.” “When you go out on the street, you go out with death too“, he asserts.
A situation that makes food distribution even more difficult and before which Unicef has launched a new initiative, reaching an agreement with Iberia to send aid. Marta López Fesser, from the United Nations Children’s Fund, explains that thanks to this, “it is possible to start transport humanitarian supplies in favor of children “in the commercial routes of the airline.
The first flight has already departed, carrying nine tents to house the sick who survive and are cared for in the middle of the street and offer minors a place where they can study. A temporary situation for a country where right now, everything is needed and there are plenty of weapons.
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